SUDDEN ACTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 150, 22 December 1938, Page 9

SUDDEN ACTION

A MINUTE'S NOTICE

ORGANISATION OF LABOUR

PROTEST

(Received December 22, 11.35 a.m.)

SYDNEY, This Day,

One minute's notice was given to Station 2KY that it was to be cut off the air, and 2KY had no opportunity to inform its listeners.

Mr. R. King, M.L.C., secretary of the committee of 2KY, said that Mr. Cameron had complained that 2KY's news commentator, Mr. J.« Morley, had attacked individuals. Mr. King added: "Mr. Cameron was trying to stifle free speech over the. air. About twenty minutes after the station was cut out, the. chief radio inspecor (Mr. W. T. Crawford) arrived at the transmitting station in French's Forest, on the northern side of the harbour, accompanied by a policeman armed with a warrant to enter the station, and the transmitter was closed." >

The Australian Labour Party decided last night to call upon all branches and workers generally to carry motions of protest. The Prime Minister, who was in Devonport last night, made telephone contact with Mr. Cameron at Ararat and arranged for Mr. Cameron to get in touch with the' controllers of the station today.